Keshet seminar

So over the weekend along with being our last weekend with the boys before Yeshiva and Midrasha, we had what is called a Keshet Seminar. A Keshet seminar is something that the organizers of the Zionist youth movements create so that different movements can meet and learn about different ideologies and movements, Bnei Akiva was the only religious youth movement among many reform movements that have all come to Israel for a gap year program. While it was really interesting to socialize with different movements, it was mostly the British youth movements so the Americans were pretty much the minority and knew no one from other movements; a majority of the Americans on Lehava, except for three of us left for the weekend, but three of us stuck it out and had a pretty nice time. It was interesting to have discussions about Israeli politics and different ideologies, and the way that the different movements had difference opinions from each other as well as when different movements that would usually disagree, ended having the same views of some things. My peulot were on the theme of Jewish music and film, so we really could discuss different traditions and orthodox practice with reference to music and film, it was really quite interesting and enjoyable. Otherwise we had the usual Shabbat, with singing, eating and rest. After a closing peulah we came home to Beit Yehudah for the last night for Machon.